Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter.

Quote by John Keats

Topics: Hearing Quotes

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Poetry should... should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts, and...

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

Joy, whose hand is ever at his lips, bidding adieu

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

You speak of Lord Byron and me; there is this great difference between us. He...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school...

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

I wish to beleave in immortality-I wish to live with you forever.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Two souls with but a single thought, two hearts that beat as one.

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

Let us not go hurrying about and collecting honey, bee-like buzzing here and there for...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...

I am in that temper that if I were under water I would scarcely kick...

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish...

I would jump down Etna for any public good - but I hate a mawkish...

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

On a lone winter evening, when the frost Has wrought a silence.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

The poetry of the earth is never dead.

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my...

I love you the more in that I believe you had liked me for my...

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Love is my religion - I could die for it.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does...

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

When old age shall this generation waste, Thou shalt remain, in midst of other woe...

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by...

Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by...

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

Nobody expects to trust his body overmuch after the age of fifty.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.

I can't even get three weeks off to have cosmetic surgery.